John A, Derry > & mn o > ZZ ss ti OQ OYn gy ~ > <x oe . Pa 8 ese Q.< © Y) ny ,W.” => a bi Catalog instruments in the field. The Catalog will be submitted to the “4 by YVog ~ ig Oo July 12, 1950 Of the eighteen companies delinquent with respect to furnishing catalog information describing their new products, eleven have now responded and information has been received that the seven who have failed to reply to our inquiry are no longer manufacturing e€ g Qi 2#h- Ml printers sometime during the month of duly. ~ aE, ™ S| 8“) _) ae 3 0 8Sge an It. . : Procurement Summary Attachment No. 1 includes a Summary of Status of Supply end Stock- pile Procurement for delivery to Commission installations and Naval organizations where the Commission holds Navy contracts accepted by the Atomic Energy Commission, Research and development contracts and Test Purchase Orders are also reported om. The latter contracts and purchase orders differ from the supply procurement in that the services of personnel are a large part of the contract committment. Where estimated completion dates are indicated om this attachment, requested dates have been used when delivery information has not been furnished by the contracting office or the sontractor. Technical Coordination Activities A, Branch Publications The July issue of Ra~Det features a report by W. J. MacIntyre of Western Reserve University entitled "A Scintillation Counter for Measurement of 1121 Uptake in the Thyroid Gland", A 30 to 50 fold improvement in sensitivity over the conventional Geiger counter system is obtained through the use of scintillation counters in coincidence, Nine new commercial radiation detection equipments are announced in the "New Products” section. Reports from the areas describing instrument research and development activities for inclusion inthe second edition of the "Compen- dium" are being received. These reports are being edited and indexed and will be submitted for printing during the month of July. Conferences A Symposium on Reactor Instrumentation umder the joint sponsorship of the Branch and the Atomic Power Division of Westinghouse was held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 5 amd 6. Seven AEC sites, the Department of the Vefense, and the Washington AEC staff were ' DORARCHIVES